Nicholas Talks -- Spring/Summer 2007
         an online collection of lectures about environmental issues and solutions
         brought to you by Duke University's Nicholas School of the Environment
         and Nicholas Institute for Environmental Policy Solutions.

         

Jan. 31 - "Biodiversity, Peoples, Deforestation, and Oil"

A talk by Stuart L. Pimm, Doris Duke Professor of Conservation Ecology, Nicholas School of the Environment, Duke University and Extraordinary Professor, Conservation Ecology Research Unit, University of Pretoria, South Africa.

In his talk, Pimm discusses the ecological consequences, involving the variety of life on Earth as well its peoples, that result as we move into the last remaining wildernesses on this planet - the rainforests.

Presented by the Duke University Center for International Studies